Slipshod Farming

The great fault with our farmers generally is, that they carry on their farms with too little regard to system. They work hard, - few classes of men work harder, - but in consequence of not having a well-considerod plan to guide thein in their labor, it often provea aiinless and profitlessi This doing work over and over, year after year, which should be done but once, is the bane of our farming. It is wearing out the farmer with hard work, exhausting the fertility of his land, and preventing any real improvement in agricultura. Notwrthstanding the advancement made in recent years, not only in appliances for performingthe various mcthods of culture in a bettr manner.but in the employment of intelligence to direct these appliances, there is still too much slipshod fanning among us. Our farmers plan only from year to year, and a great many of them do not even plan the operations of the season un til the season compels them to do something, when, in six cases out of ten, they put in their oats and corn, beans and. potatoes, siaaply because they must raise something to livo upon. Instead of tilling their fields with a due regard to the principies of rotation of erops; thoy sow and plant year after year, just where they can get the handiest chance, and in just about the same way. Instead of building some new and permanent fence each year, sotbat in n few years their farms will be completely enclosed, and they be relieved from the burden of temporary fencing, they spend days and days in patching up scarecrow fences, which is little better after additional ttrush is put on than it was before. Instead of keeping their farm buildings in good trim, constantly dsing somo repairmg or improving yearly that will make them better and add to their permanent value, their buildings are constantly depreciating in worth until they need so much done to them that it will hardly pay to do